User apache exists with home directory /var/www, which exists.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's supposed to default to the current user's home directory. Perhaps
> "apache" doesn't have a home directory?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> "Jonathan Hayward, http://JonathansCorner.com"; wrote:
>
>> I found a reason for the behavior:
>>
>> The script was running as user apache, but trying to open
>> /root/.matplotlib, and /root was mode 0700. It stopped crashing on import
>> after I made /root mode 0711.
>>
>> This is somewhat surprising behavior to me; shouldn't it be defaulting to
>> something besides expected access to ~root?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Hayward,
>> http://JonathansCorner.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>> Tried that and reran it; I'm getting substantially the same
>> stacktrace:
>>
>>
>> File "/home/jhayward/bintmp/test.py", line 5, in <module>
>> import matplotlib;
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>> 639, in <module>
>> rcParams = rc_params()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>> 562, in rc_params
>> fname = matplotlib_fname()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>> 513, in matplotlib_fname
>> fname = os.path.join(get_configdir(), 'matplotlibrc')
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>> 207, in wrapper
>> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>> 403, in _get_configdir
>> raise RuntimeError("Failed to create %s/.matplotlib; consider
>> setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib
>> configuration data"%h)
>> RuntimeError: Failed to create /root/.matplotlib; consider setting
>> MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data
>>
>> It's /path/matplotlibrc and not /path/.matplotlibrc or anything
>> like that?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Michael Droettboom
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>> Just throwing out a suggestion here: You could try putting a
>> matplotlibrc file in the same directory as your Python script
>> -- it will use that instead of the one in ~/.matplotlib.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> "Jonathan Hayward, http://JonathansCorner.com"; wrote:
>>
>> I have a PHP script which authenticates a user and I am
>> trying to get the PHP script to wrap a Python script using
>> matplotlib.
>>
>> As it is, the script mostly works when invoked from the
>> command line or as its own CGI script. When I call it from
>> a PHP script, it doesn't produce output, and testing found
>> that when I call a Python script from a PHP script, output
>> works before but not after "import matplotlib": if the PHP
>> script calls a script of:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> print "Before import matplotlib."
>> import matplotlib;
>> print "After import matplotlib."
>>
>> the first print statement succeeds but the second one
>> fails; the server log shows a crash of:
>>
>> Before import matplotlib.Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/home/jhayward/bintmp/test.py", line 5, in <module>
>> import matplotlib;
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>> line 639, in <module>
>> rcParams = rc_params()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>> line 562, in rc_params
>> fname = matplotlib_fname()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>> line 513, in matplotlib_fname
>> fname = os.path.join(get_configdir(), 'matplotlibrc')
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>> line 207, in wrapper
>> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
>> File
>> "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>> line 403, in _get_configdir
>> raise RuntimeError("Failed to create %s/.matplotlib;
>> consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for
>> matplotlib configuration data"%h)
>> RuntimeError: Failed to create /root/.matplotlib; consider
>> setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for
>> matplotlib configuration data
>>
>> I think this error is somewhat misleading; it persisted
>> after I ran a "chmod -R 1777 /root/.matplotlib".
>>
>> What is the proper way to adjust things so matplotlib will
>> be happy with its .matplotlib directory?
>>
>> -- -- Jonathan Hayward,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>>
>>
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>> -- -- Jonathan Hayward, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> -- Jonathan Hayward, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:
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>>
>> ** To see an award-winning website with stories, essays, artwork,
>> ** games, and a four-dimensional maze, why not visit my home page?
>> ** All of this is waiting for you at http://JonathansCorner.com
>>
>> ++ Would you like to curl up with one of my hardcover books?
>> ++ You can now get my books from http://CJSHayward.com
>>
>
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> Michael Droettboom
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> Space Telescope Science Institute
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>
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